A wearable vest constructed from reclaimed Amazon cardboard packaging, inspired by traditional agricultural outerwear historically worn in landscapes such as the Chiltern Hills: a rural landscape shaped by woodland labour, agriculture, and material extraction, now impacted by large-scale infrastructure development supporting logistics systems.

As it accumulates through participatory performance, the garment will eventually weigh 4 kilograms, representing the average monthly cardboard waste produced by one person in London. The project critically examines global systems of convenience and logistics through the physical burden they place on both natural environments and human bodies. By transforming Amazon’s cardboard packaging waste into a wearable garment, the project makes visible the hidden environmental cost of over-packaging and material extraction.

Amazon is used as a case study due to its global visibility and reliance on extensive cardboard packaging. Cardboard is primarily produced from softwood species such as pine, linking everyday consumption to forestry extraction and landscape transformation.